Roller-skating track



w. A. Mccoy. ROLLER SKATING TRACK.

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'Unirnn srarnfs Partnr orricn WILBER A. MCCOY, OF ITTSBRG-H, PENISI'SYLVANI."V

. ROLLER-SKATING TRACK.

To all whom it may concern l Be it known that I, Tinnen A. McCoy, -av citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roller- Skating Tracks, of which the following is a specification. v

llfhis invention relates to roller skating rinks and more particularly to the floors thereof,and the object of the inventionv is to provide a floor which is constructed to forni an undulatory track or skating surface, whereby a simple means for a pleasurable and enjoyable method of roller skating, with the least possible exertion, is had.

In order that the invention may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specication, and in said drawing,

Figure l is a plan view of a fragment of the track;

Fig. 2 is an elevation or edge view of the track, and

Figs. 3 and d are cross sections on the lines 3 3 and @-4, res ectively, of Fig. Q.

Referring speci cally to the drawing, the track is made up of four parallel sections designated by the reference characters 5, 6, 7 and 8, respectively. rlhe sections 5 and G are on the outside of the track, and the sections 7 and 8 are located alongside each other between said outer sections.

The outer sections 5 and 6 of the trackV have plane surfaces, and the inner track sections 7 and 8 each have an undulatory surface, the same being made up of a series of alternating inclinedv planes. The high points of the track section 7 are shown at a and the lower points at b, whereas the high and low points of the track section 8 'are shown at c and d, respectively. It will be noted that the high lpoints of one track section are in line with the low points of the other section, and hence the high points of the two sections follow each other in alternate order. This arrangement produces a the descending surface of one track section being alongside the ascending surface of the other section. The ascending surfaces of the section 7 are shown at e and the descending surfaces at f, whereas the ascending and descending surfaces of the section 8 are shown at 7 and it, respectively.

The drawing shows the track arranged in a straight line, but itcan be built ina curve,

Speccation of Letters Patent. Patented Die@ 16, 1919, i Appneation'siea Maren 11, 191e.V serial n.' 281,925. f

the skater merely shifting the weight of his body froin'on'e4 foot to the other. The ac.

tion is as follows, it being assumed that the 'skater is going in the direction of the arrow,

and that one foot Vis on the track lsection 6 and the other footl on the section 8 i The skater, starting at the high point con track section S, coasts down the incline 7b on his right foot to the low point cl, the skate on the left foot being on the floor section 6.

t the low point. d, the skater shifts his Y weight to the left foot 'and skates on the level track section 6 until the right foot.

reaches the neXt high point on Vthe section 8, where he again shifts his weight to his right foot and coasts down the neXt incline L, and so keeps in motion bysuccessively shifting his weight from one foot to the other at the high and low points of the track sections 8. The track sections 5 and 7 will'be used in the saine manner as the sections k6 and 8, the skaters however traveling in opposite directions. Y Y y When the skater wishes to travel faster than the speed that can be obtained by using the track sections 6 and 8 (or 5 and 7), he

can use the sections and S.v He then starts at the high point c of section 8 and coasts down the incline t to the low point a? on his left foot, and then when he reaches the point l he shifts his weight to the right foot and coasts on this foot down the incline f of the section 7 and when he Vreaches the bottom of the incline `he shifts his weight and they can also be built to forni the .floorA 100 V to his left foot to coast down thenext inol,t a skating rink structure. The height of the inclines Will he such that there Will he no danger of the skaters falling oit and getting injured.

l claim:

l. A track for roller lskating comprising a plane section, and another section lalongside tie saine having an undnlatory snracc, the nndnlations running in the direction` oi' the length o the plane section and their surface in a direction transverse ofthe latter being plane.

2. A track for roller skating comprising a plane section, and another section alongside the same composed of a series of successive descending and ascending inclines, said inclines rnnninn` in the direction of the length of the plane section and their surface in a direction transverseof the latter being plane.

3. A track for roller skating comprising two sections arranged alongside each other, and each composed of successive descending and ascending incline's, the descending inclines of one section being opposite the as- 2 cendingiinclines of the other sections, and vice Versa.

l. A track for roller skating` comprising two sections arranged alongside each other, and each having an nndulatory surface, and 3 plane track sections on one side of each ot the aforesaid sec-tions.

5. A track for roller skating comprising two sections arranged alongside each other, and each composed of successive descending` 3 and ascending` inclines, theV descending inclines of one section being),- opposite the ascending inclines of the other sections, and vice versa, and plane track sections on one side of each of the aforesaid sections. i

ln testimony whereof l aiix my signature.

^ `WILBER A. lMCCOY. 

